Word: franchot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Philip Roth is given a similar dressing-down for Alexander Portnoy, the Jew who sees his Jewishness as a trap preventing his development into a Franchot Tone American. "Who, born a Jew in the 20th century, has been so lofty in spirit as never to have shared this fantasy?" replies Howe. "But who, born a Jew in the 20th century, has been so deluded as to stay with this fantasy for more than a few moments?" Such sobering interrogations have always kept the American Jew leaping from the melting pot into the fire. R.Z. Sheppard